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Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 is a 1986 book by environmental historian Alfred W. Crosby. The book builds on Crosby's earlier study, The Columbian Exchange , in which he described the complex global transfer of organisms that accompanied European colonial endeavors.
Sharon Kirsch, What Species of Creatures: Animal Relations From the New World. New Star Books: 2008. ISBN 978-1554200405. Mark Elvin, The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. Yale University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0300119930. Alan Taylor, American Colonies (Penguin Books: 2002), 280-300; Stephanie True Peters, Epidemic!
The scientific term used in anthropology, cultural studies, biology and medicine is anthropo-entomophagy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Anthropo-entomophagy does not include the eating of arthropods other than insects such as arachnids and myriapods , which is defined as arachnophagy .
Entomophagy is scientifically described as widespread among non-human primates and common among many human communities. [3] The scientific term describing the practice of eating insects by humans is anthropo-entomophagy. [7] The eggs, larvae, pupae, and adults of certain insects have been eaten by humans from prehistoric times to the present ...
El Nino: History and Crisis: Studies from the Asia-Pacific Region. Cambridge: White Horse Press. Grove, R.H. 2007. The Great El Niño of 1789–93 and its global consequences : Reconstructing an extreme climatic event in world environmental history. The Medieval History Journal 10: 43–66. Grove, R.H., and Adamson, George 2018.
Alfred Worcester Crosby Jr. (January 15, 1931 – March 14, 2018) was a professor of History, Geography, and American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and University of Helsinki. He was the author of books including The Columbian Exchange (1972) and Ecological Imperialism (1986).
The "Spanish fly", Lytta vesicatoria, has been considered to have medicinal, aphrodisiac, and other properties. Human interactions with insects include both a wide variety of uses, whether practical such as for food, textiles, and dyestuffs, or symbolic, as in art, music, and literature, and negative interactions including damage to crops and extensive efforts to control insect pests.
Most earlier writers on imperialism favored the view that imperialism had a contradictory effect on colonized nations’ development, simultaneously building up their productive forces, better integrating them into a world economy and providing education, while also bringing warfare, economic exploitation, and political repression to negate ...